Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhen Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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The present is an eternal now.
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